Motivational Quotes

Evil

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

2.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

3.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

4.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

5.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

6.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

7.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

8.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

9.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

13.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

15.

Evil spelled backward is live.

16.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

18.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

19.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

21.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

22.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

23.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

24.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

25.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

26.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

29.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

31.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

32.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

33.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

34.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

37.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

The evil that we know is best.